{"id":41835,"date":"2026-05-14T11:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/41835\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:25:19","slug":"%f0%9f%87%ab%f0%9f%87%b7-france-junior-eurovision-2026-participation-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/41835\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 France: Junior Eurovision 2026 Participation Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France has been confirmed as competing in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026, marking their tenth appearance in the competition. <\/p>\n<p>The French Head of Delegation has confirmed to La Chaine 12 Points that the country will compete in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026. France won the 2025 contest represented by Lou Deleuze with \u201cCe monde\u201d, but turned down the right to host this year\u2019s competition due to financial pressures at the broadcaster. <\/p>\n<p>Lou Deleuze won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Tbilisi for France with \u201cCe monde\u201d. She scored 248 points, giving France their fourth victory in history and tying them with Georgia for the most wins overall.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026<\/p>\n<p>Junior Eurovision 2025 was won by France, but the French broadcaster has declined to host the competition. As a result, conversations are currently ongoing regarding where the 2026 contest will be held. To date, the following broadcasters have confirmed their intention to compete in the 2026 contest:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddea Georgia: GPB<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 France: France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea Ireland: TG4<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1 Netherlands: AVROTROS<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddf0 North Macedonia: MRT<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 Poland: TVP<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9 Portugal: RTP<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf2 San Marino: SMRTV<\/p>\n<p>The following broadcasters, who have previously participated, have declined returning to the contest:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea Belgium: VRT \u2013 Last competed in 2012<br \/>\n\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddf0 Denmark: DR \u2013 Last participated in 2005<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddea Estonia: ERR \u2013 Last participated in 2024<br \/>\n\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea Germany: KiKA \u2013 Last participated in 2024<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4 Norway: NRK \u2013 Last participated in 2005<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddee Slovenia: RTVSLO \u2013 Last participated in 2015<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea Sweden: SVT \u2013 Last participated in 2014<br \/>\n\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc77\udb40\udc6c\udb40\udc73Wales: S4C \u2013 Last participated in 2019<br \/>\n\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa Australia: SBS \u2013 Last participated in 2016<\/p>\n<p>The following broadcasters have ruled out debuting in the contest:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf8 Iceland: R\u00daV \u2013 Last broadcast the contest in 2021<br \/>\n\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddff Czechia: \u010cT \u2013 Never broadcast the contest<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee Finland: Yle \u2013 Last broadcast the contest in 2003<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CTh352Zyki4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Chaine 12 Points<\/a><\/p>\n<p>France in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n<p>France first participated in the 2004 contest in Lillehammer. Thomas Pontier placed 6th with his song \u201cSi on voulait bien\u201d. Afterwards, they withdrew from the contest and did not return until 2018. Since then, they have won four times; in 2020 with \u201cJ\u2019imagine\u201d by Valentina, in 2022 with \u201cOh Maman!\u201d by Lissandro, in 2023 with \u201cC\u0153ur\u201d by Zo\u00e9 Clauzure and most recently in 2025 with \u201cCe monde\u201d by Lou Deleuze. France has hosted the contest twice; in 2021 in Paris and in 2023 in Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France has been confirmed as competing in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026, marking their tenth appearance in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20858],"tags":[20859,20860,2788],"class_list":{"0":"post-41835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eurovision","8":"tag-eurovision","9":"tag-eurovision-song-contest-2026","10":"tag-headline"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}